The EssayBrick, Stone, Glass, SteelEpisodes Episode guide

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1. Novelist Kit de Waal reflects on the architecture of the prison where she worked.

   5/5Novelist Kit de Waal reflects on the architecture of the prison where she once worked.
2. Queensferry Crossing, Scotland

   4/5Dr Gavin Francis on the largest balanced cantilever bridge ever to be built.
3. Chesterfield's Crooked Spire, Derbyshire

   3/5Poet Helen explains why Chesterfield's Crooked Spire Church has inspired her.
4. Impington College, Cambridge

   2/5Painter Humphrey Ocean introduces Impington College, built by architect Walter Gropius.
5. 288a Main Road

   1/5Novelist Mark Haddon reflects on the house in Northamptonshire that was his childhood home